Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, financier, 1931-2022
A senior colleague at NM Rothschild & Sons once issued the definitive judgment on the leadership style of Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, dynast, financier, philanthropist and owner and breeder of racehorses, who has died aged 91.
“You ask yourself, ‘Would Evelyn want this?’,” the colleague told the Financial Times in 1988, “and if the answer was no you didn’t do it.”
When it came to questions over the future of NM Rothschild, which Evelyn de Rothschild chaired for 27 years until 2003, the answer was often no. As a result, “his legacy is the survival of the bank”, according to one City grandee.
This story originally appeared on: Financial Times - Author:Andrew Hill
